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A Prayer About the Beauty and Brokenness of Sexuality

     By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. 1 Corinthians 6:14-18

     Dear Lord Jesus, there are so many thoughts swirling through my head this morning. For sure, I’ve never been more aware of the pervasiveness of sexual brokenness—everywhere I go… everywhere I look, including in the mirror. It’s like we’re actually living in the Corinth of Paul’s day. Promiscuity, perversion and prostitution are no longer the exception, but the rule. So many of us bear the wounds… feel the shame… know the disconnect of our sexual brokenness and sin. And yet… and yet, the gospel dares us to hope.

     Hope… along with astonishment… that’s the greater impulse of my heart this morning. In fact, as I ponder what Paul was saying to the Corinthians, it leaves me undone—overwhelmed with beauty, Lord Jesus… the beauty of what it actually means to belong to you… to be desired by you… to “known” by you in the most intimate of all ways. Dare I say it, Lord Jesus? Whatever the “best sex” is between a husband and wife, it’s only a hint and a whisper of the intimacy you intend for yourself and your Bride. Jesus, enlarge the chambers of my heart to understand, believe and enjoy what this actually means. I’ll not live by cliché, metaphor, spin or hype, but by the truth… your truth.

     Why should I flee all forms of sexual immorality? Simply because it’s what I’m supposed to do so a Christian… it’s the rules? Jesus, that would never be enough to keep me from acting out in selfish and destructive ways. I’ll flee sexual immorality because you flee to me in the gospel.

     You have died for me… you have been raised for me… you have married yourself to me… you have united my whole being to yourself. I am already one with you “in spirit”, and I await your return and my resurrection to know the fulfillment of everything you have purchased and planned for your beloved Bride. Whatever the future and fulfillment of sexuality is, it belongs to you…

     Until then, Lord Jesus, help me and my friends flee all forms of sexual immorality by fleeing to you, our great and gracious Bridegroom. In our marriages… in our singleness… in our brokenness… in our need for repentance and healing… be glorified. So very Amen, I pray, in your peerless name.

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